Australia Tortured by Tremendous Pietersen

By

Michael Atherton, The Times

Updated Dec. 5, 2010 9:58 pm ET

Ghosts are in the process of being laid to rest at Adelaide this week. It was four years ago to the very day that England were eviscerated at this ground, hypnotised into a shot-less trance by Shane Warne. Now Australia finished the fourth anniversary of one of their greatest victories on their knees, flogged remorselessly by England's batsmen and in particular by Kevin Pietersen, who reprised his role as cock of the walk.

Mr. Pietersen has made this ground his own in some ways, adding a Test match double hundred—his second—to...